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Yawn.

It was a boring week in the Big Brother house.

I hate beginning a recap column like that. Hell, I hate beginning any piece of writing that way. But hear me out: the Head of Household's nominations were a no brainer, the HouseGuest getting the boot was anything but shocking and worst of all – we're talking about summer reality here – no conflicts?

Okay, that's a lie, but only because it was too little, too late!

Contestants this season have always found a bone to pick with one another by the time Thursday's live eviction comes around. And Week 4 was no different. (We'll get to it). Sunday and Tuesday's all-work-and-no-play-makes-Jack-a-poor-boy eps were duller than Emily Dickinson poetry – making Thursday's nothing fight a bit of a bore.

Essentially, Ronnie could have run around buck-naked singing selections from hit Broadway musicals and I still would've given the week a negative review.

For the record, said act of randomness didn't happen. Even so, you may by now have at least a rough idea of how I felt about Russell's turn as leader of the house.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Let's get to the recap.

Week 4 at a glance

Head of Household: Russell
HouseGuests nominated for eviction (pre-veto): Ronnie and Lydia
Power of Veto winner: Michele
PoV used on: No one
HouseGuests nominated for eviction (post-veto): Ronnie and Lydia
HouseGuest evicted live on Thursday: Ronnie
Who should have been evicted: Ronnie
New HoH: Chima
HouseGuests remaining: 9 (Chima, Jeff, Jessie, Jordan, Kevin, Lydia, Michele, Natalie, Russell)

I now pronounce you Jeff and Russell

The mediocrity began during the HoH competish when the two remaining HouseGuests – Jeff and Russell – still in contention for the prize decided they were both gunning for the same person this week (Ronnie). Because of this, there was no sense in literally swinging around and around in an endless circle in a test of endurance if both dudes wanted Ronnie gone.

With that came a truce: Jeff would voluntarily relieve himself from the swings if Russell promised not to nominate Jeff or Jeff's better (showmance) half, Jordan, for eviction.

With no Bible handy, Russell swore on his father's life. Good enough for Jeff.

And as luck would have it, Russell stuck to his word and nominated Ronnie and Lydia for eviction.

Then things got interesting...

On Sunday, Russell was saying things like, "I have a newfound respect for Jeff." Fair enough. Bros say that. Even better, the boys decided they'd partner up from here on out to take down the rest of the house.

If you ask me, they very well could.

Two days later, Jeff is tweaking to Jordan because he's under the impression that Russell has some sort of man crush on him. He relates to her how earlier he was laying down somewhere, and when he shifted his weight to the other side, he caught Russell starring into his eyes.

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